Now it won't show up and I can't seem to mount it. Does anyone have any suggestions? Please help. This is not good.

dnanian

11-07-2007 11:42 PM

Does it show up in Disk Utility? If so, try selecting and repairing it.

esbandido

11-08-2007 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by dnanian
(Post 15337)

Does it show up in Disk Utility? If so, try selecting and repairing it.

Nope. It powers up and all but doesn't mount and can't be found in Disk Utility.

dnanian

11-08-2007 10:59 AM

Sounds like pretty severe hardware failure...

esbandido

11-09-2007 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by dnanian
(Post 15344)

Sounds like pretty severe hardware failure...

Yep, that's what I was afraid of.

Against my better judgement, I went ahead and upgraded to Leopard and then voila, for some reason the disc then mounted on the desktop and appeared in disk utility.

I was able reformat the disc and then used Time Machine to back up my system for the time being. TM is pretty cool, but I still prefer to have a bootable clone via SD. Maybe that's just because it's what I'm used to.

Thanks for your help. Can't wait for the SD update. It's been so long since I've been without a bootable clone I kind of feel naked without it.

dnanian

11-09-2007 11:21 AM

Well, that's certainly peculiar. I don't know why, if you power cycled (etc), that it would only show up under Leopard. Weird.

esbandido

11-09-2007 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by dnanian
(Post 15383)

Well, that's certainly peculiar. I don't know why, if you power cycled (etc), that it would only show up under Leopard. Weird.

Yeah, I think my naturally overwhelming curiosity about it was overcome by the sheer relief of having it working again. I definitely thought it peculiar.